DNA quadruple helices in nanotechnology

JL Mergny, D Sen - Chemical Reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
DNA has played an early and powerful role in the development of bottom-up
nanotechnologies, not least because of DNA's precise, predictable, and controllable …

Folding dynamics of polymorphic G‐quadruplex structures

JT Grün, H Schwalbe - Biopolymers, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract G‐quadruplexes (G4), found in numerous places within the human genome, are
involved in essential processes of cell regulation. Chromosomal DNA G4s are involved for …

Self-sorting in macroscopic supramolecular self-assembly via additive effects of capillary and magnetic forces

M Tan, P Tian, Q Zhang, G Zhu, Y Liu, M Cheng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Supramolecular self-assembly of μm-to-mm sized components is essential to construct
complex supramolecular systems. However, the selective assembly to form designated …

Recent advances of DNA nanostructure‐based cell membrane engineering

L Feng, J Li, J Sun, L Wang, C Fan… - Advanced Healthcare …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Materials that can regulate the composition and structure of the cell membrane to fabricate
engineered cells with defined functions are in high demand. Compared with other …

Angiogenic self-assembling peptide scaffolds for functional tissue regeneration

B Sarkar, PK Nguyen, W Gao, A Dondapati… - …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Implantation of acellular biomimetic scaffolds with proangiogenic motifs may have exciting
clinical utility for the treatment of ischemic pathologies such as myocardial infarction …

Tuning DNA supramolecular polymers by the addition of small, functionalized nucleobase mimics

C Lachance-Brais, CD Hennecker… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nucleobase mimicking small molecules able to reconfigure DNA are a recently discovered
strategy that promises to extend the structural and functional diversity of nucleic acids …

Noncovalent helicene structure between nucleic acids and cyanuric acid

A Alenaizan, K Fauché… - … A European Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cyanuric acid (CA), a triazine heterocycle, is extensively utilized for noncovalent self‐
assembly. The association between poly (adenine) and CA into micron‐length fibers was a …

From stars to stripes: RNA‐directed shaping of plant viral protein templates—structural synthetic virology for smart biohybrid nanostructures

C Wege, C Koch - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The self‐assembly of viral building blocks bears exciting prospects for fabricating new types
of bionanoparticles with multivalent protein shells. These enable a spatially controlled …

Probing the self-assembly process of amphiphilic tetrahedral DNA frameworks

C Liang, J Chen, M Li, Z Ge, C Fan… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Herein we utilized the thermal hysteresis method to directly probe the self-assembly process
of amphiphilic DNA nanostructures, with the use of an amphiphilic tetrahedral DNA …

Thermal hysteresis involving reversible self-catalytic reactions

M Yamaguchi - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Hysteresis is ubiquitous in nature and biology. It appears in ferromagnetism,
ferroelectrism, traffic congestion, river sedimentation, electronics, thermoresponses, cell …